The Abandoned

Director: Nacho Cerdà

Cast: Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden, Carlos Reig-Plaza, Paraskeva Djukelova, Valentin Ganev

(Lionsgate/After Dark Films, 2006) Rated: R

US DVD release date: 19 June 2007 (Lions Gate)

by Brian Holcomb

This is one of the best horror films in some time; not sacrificing itself to irony or parody but committed to the dark corners of human nature and the complex labyrinths that exist in the mind.
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